What's the key to Middle East Peace?

I have been writing, and explaining, for years, that the real issue in the middle east is not land, or borders, but simply, religion.

This was emphasized once again this week by the so called "moderate" Palestinian authority, the group the Obama administration so desperately wants the Israelis to make absurd concessions to (no Jewish building? certainly seems biased to me).

On the official Palestinian Information Office website, the PA published a "study" that purported to demonstrate that there is no Jewish connection to the "Kotel" or wailing wall.

In fact, the study went on to say the the tunnels, the paths on the side of the wall, used for centuries by Jewish Pilgrims to the Temple (including Jesus) had always been used by Muslims and never Jews or Christians.

Of course, the study fails to note, as always, that Jerusalem is NEVER mentioned, not one time, in the Koran.

Ironically, even the PA's own website, in it's history of Jerusalem timeline, lists Jewish residency there.

This is part of an ongoing deligitamization campaign that has been going on publicly, and behind closed doors, for decades.

One of the worst examples of this, has been the raping of archeologic items from inside the Temple Mount.

Jewish Law will not allow any digs under the Mount. However, during the Oslo accords, and the Wie River accords, the Israelis allowed Yasser Arafat, at his specific request, to widen doorways to the underground prayer areas of Al Aqsa and the Dome of the Rock mosques.

What was discovered shortly after, was truckloads of dirt, filled with artifacts from the first and second temple periods simply dumped into the Qidron valley, the valley between the Temple and the Mount of Olives.

This extends throughout the Muslim world.

This week, the front page of many British papers describes the type of horrible anti semitic lies being taught in the weekend Muslim schools. There are all the classics. Jews are developed out of Apes and Pigs, Jews are conspiring to take over the world, etc.

Of equal concern to the British is the fact that the children, as young as 6, are also being taught the basic Sharia requirements for severing of hands and feet for petty crimes.

The British Education Secretary has condemned this in no uncertain terms.

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his government have also been on the forefront of this battle.

Where is the US? If the Saudis are sponsoring this in England, what do you think is going on in the middle east?

Until we understand who and what the real enemy is, we can't help to see true peace.

Obama a Socialist? No, not him!

Obama a Socialist? No, not him! Oh, the irony. On the very day, during the very week, when the NY Times was telling us over and over about who to vote for, and what the real message of the elections was, I found the ultimate irony in their business section. In an article entitled “In G.M.’s Comeback Story, a Pivotal Role Played by Washington” the Times repeatedly discusses the fact that, for all intents and purposes, the President and his team are running General Motors and have been. “Yet interviews with G.M. and federal officials show decisions by the government have played a pivotal role in shaping the automaker’s leadership, its business strategies, and now it’s initial stock offering…” “People familiar with the contact between G.M. and the Treasury Department say Ron Bloom, a senior adviser to the Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner, is told about actions that G.M. management and the board are contemplating before they occur.” “To ensure a fresh start for the company, the GOVERNEMENT CHOSE A NEW CHAIRMAN AND SEVERAL NEW DIRECTORS FOR ITS BOARD (my emphasis), which in turn picked two of its members to serve as successive chiefs of the company.” “The government also set parameters for G.M.’s strategic direction – FEWER BRANDS AND MODELS, A LEANER ORGANIZATION, AND A SWEEPING OVERHAUL OF ITS PLODDING CORPORATE CULTURE (my emphasis).” When I referred to the structural changes Obama has wrought, this is exactly what I was referring. Even the current stock offering is being run by the government in such a way as to give the appearance of ceding control, when in fact, there would be no loss of government control. Sigh, more of the same… Obama a Socialist? No, not him! Oh, the irony. On the very day, during the very week, when the NY Times was telling us over and over about who to vote for, and what the real message of the elections was, I found the ultimate irony in their business section. In an article entitled “In G.M.’s Comeback Story, a Pivotal Role Played by Washington” the Times repeatedly discusses the fact that, for all intents and purposes, the President and his team are running General Motors and have been. “Yet interviews with G.M. and federal officials show decisions by the government have played a pivotal role in shaping the automaker’s leadership, its business strategies, and now it’s initial stock offering…” “People familiar with the contact between G.M. and the Treasury Department say Ron Bloom, a senior adviser to the Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner, is told about actions that G.M. management and the board are contemplating before they occur.” “To ensure a fresh start for the company, the GOVERNEMENT CHOSE A NEW CHAIRMAN AND SEVERAL NEW DIRECTORS FOR ITS BOARD (my emphasis), which in turn picked two of its members to serve as successive chiefs of the company.” “The government also set parameters for G.M.’s strategic direction – FEWER BRANDS AND MODELS, A LEANER ORGANIZATION, AND A SWEEPING OVERHAUL OF ITS PLODDING CORPORATE CULTURE (my emphasis).” When I referred to the structural changes Obama has wrought, this is exactly what I was referring. Even the current stock offering is being run by the government in such a way as to give the appearance of ceding control, when in fact, there would be no loss of government control. Sigh, more of the same…